After almost two years, Stark above War in Gaza And support for Israel, the democrats seemed contrary to the policy towards Iran, because the progressers demanded a united opposition before President Donald Trump announced strikes against the Tehran nuclear program. Party leaders stood more carefully.
American leaders of all stripes have found a common plane in a position in which Iran could not receive nuclear weapons for two decades. For many years American enemy supported groups that killed Americans in the Middle East and threatened to destroy Israel. But Trump Announcement on Saturday that the US hit three nuclear places It can become the latest schism of the Democratic Party, as it was zingy Trump insulationist “Make America again” The database is more conservative.
While the progresses towards the military action raised a clear opposition to Trump’s potential intervention, the party’s management played a safer basis for insisting on the role of congress before using force. Many outstanding democrats with presidential aspirations in 2028. Israel-Iranian war.
“In a sense, they secure their factories,” said Joel Rubin, a former deputy assistant to the Secretary of State, who served under the command of democratic President Barack Obama and is currently a strategist of foreign policy. “The beasts of the Democratic Party’s electoral districts are now so hostile to the Israeli war in Gaza that it is really difficult to leave, as if someone would confirm the unauthorized war that supports Israel without an explosion.”
After Trump announced strikes on Saturday, the selected democrats questioned Trump’s decision – especially without the authorization of the US Congress.
“Terrible sentence,” said Senator Tim Kaine, D-Va. “I will press on all senators to vote for whether they are for this third idiotic war in the Middle East.”
Progressi Democrats used Trump’s ideas and words
Rep. Ro Khanna, d-colif., Called Trump’s consideration of “the decisive moment for our party.” Khanna introduced the provisions with the representative Thomas Massie, R-Ky, which called the Republican president to “solve” the employ of the American armed forces against Iran, unless she “clearly authorizes” the statement of the Congress war.
Khanna used her own arguments of Trump’s campaign to put American interests in the first place, when Congresmen talked to Theo von, a comedian who supports the president and is popular in the so -called “manosphere” of Trump’s male supporters.
“It will cost this country, a lot of money that you should spend at home here,” said Khanna, which is said to be one of the many democrats who look at the basic party in 2028.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent, who twice sought a democratic president’s nomination, pointed to Trump’s target during his inaugural speech about being known as “conciliator and uniform”.
“Supporting the war of Netanyahu with Iran would be a catastrophic mistake,” said Sanders about the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu.
Sanders restored legislation prohibiting the employ of federal money by force against Iran, insisted that the US military intervention was unreasonable and illegal and accused Israel of unpredictable impact. The leader of the Senate Democratic Chuck Schumer from New York signed a similar bill from Sanders in 2020, but this time he abstained.
Some thought that the party should face anti -war attitude.
“The leaders of the Democratic Party must accelerate and loudly oppose the war with Iran and demand voting in Congress,” said Tommy Viettor, former adviser to Obama, on X.
The mainstream democrats are cautious and at the same time critical
Handy support of the Democratic Administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President of Kamali Harris for the war of Israel against Hamas was circulating A ticket of the White House of the Party in 2024, even with criticism of dealing with the humanitarian crisis of Israel in Gaza. Trump used the divisions Invase with Arabic voters and Orthodox Jews On the way back to the White House.
Today, the Israeli-Iran war is the latest test for the party that is trying to fix its coalition before next year in half and speedy to start the presidential race in 2028. The party will try to transform the division into the base of activists, which is skeptical towards foreign interventions and already critical towards the USA for Israel as well as more established democrats and independent, who constitute disputes, if not always a noisy voting block.
In the statement after Israel’s first strikes on Iran, Schumer said that Israel has the right to defend himself, and “the involvement of the United States in the security and defense of Israel must be iron when they are preparing for the reaction of Iran.”
Senator Jacky Rosen, D-NEV., He was also cautious in reacting to Israeli and said: “The US must still stand with Israel, as it has been at decades, at this dangerous moment.”
Other Democrats condemned Israel’s strikes and accused Netanyah of sabotaging nuclear conversations with Iran. They remind society that Trump withdrew in 2018 from the nuclear agreement, which confined the enrichment of uranium in Tehran in exchange for the abolition of economic sanctions negotiated during Obama’s administration.
“Trump created a problem”, senator Chris Murphy, D-conn., Published on Wednesday on X. “One reason why Iran was so close to obtaining nuclear weapons is that Trump destroyed a diplomatic agreement that put serious, verifiable restrictions on their nuclear program.”
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AND Pearson Institute/Associated Press-Gorc Center for Public Affairs Research It was stated that about half of the Democrats said that the US was “too supportive” Israel, and about 4 out of 10 stated that their level of support is “appropriate”. Democrats more often than independent and Republicans said that the Israeli government had “many” responsibility for the continuation of the war between Israel and Hamas.
About 6 out of 10 democrats, and half of the Republicans thought Iran was an opponent with whom the US was in conflict.
Democratic representative of Yassamin Ansari, an Iranian American from Arizona, said on Wednesday to X that Iranians unknowingly victims in conflict, because there were no shelters or infrastructure to protect civilians from targeted missiles, as in Israel.
“The Iranian nation is not a regime and should not be punished for its actions,” Ansari wrote, criticizing Trump for fear among the Iranian population. “Iranians deserve freedom from the barbaric regime, and Israelis deserve security.”
